Gemini Intelligence: New features, on more devices

Google is pushing Gemini Intelligence to more hardware, including Motorola's first such device, the motorola signature 27, available for US pre-order on November 19, and to Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold through the latest Pixel Drop. Task automation, which lets Gemini order food, hail rides or book reservations across apps, is expanding to the UK, India and Japan.

The new features share a theme: Gemini acting on the device and across personal data, not just answering questions. That's where assistants start to become genuinely useful, and where trust starts to matter a lot more.

Two features stand out to us. Create My Widget lets people describe a homescreen widget in plain words, a trip dashboard or a spending tracker, and Gemini builds it by pulling from Gmail, Calendar and Search. Device Assistance lets people ask the phone to clear storage, check which apps can see their location, or mute distractions while letting important calls through. Both are the kind of small, concrete help that makes AI feel earned rather than bolted on. The location-permissions check, in particular, is a privacy win if it nudges people to look.

The catch is the same thing that makes them good: depth of access. A widget that reads email to build a spending tracker, an assistant that can change settings, a car display that finds a confirmation email and offers to text an address. Each step is convenient. Together they make one company's model the layer between people and their apps, inbox and device. Google's footnotes say results should be checked and features vary by country, age and subscription, which is fair warning that this is still uneven.

Where this leads if it scales is an operating system where the assistant, not the user, increasingly decides what gets surfaced and done. That can be great. It also concentrates a lot of power and a lot of personal data in Gemini, and it gives app makers less direct contact with their own users. We'd like to see Google be clearer about what data each feature touches and how easy it is to switch off.

Gemini Intelligence was announced earlier this year and began rolling out this summer on Pixel 11 and Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Z Fold8, Z Flip8 and S26 series. Rambler, which turns speech into organized text in real time, is coming to more Pixel 10 models and the motorola signature 27. Google also says proactive suggestions are coming to Android Auto for Pixel owners and Create My Widget is coming to Pixel Watch, following last month's Googlebook laptop.